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Law digests: 8 August 2025

08 August 2025
Issue: 8128 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Company

Kicks and another v MLS-Multinational Logistics Services Ltd [2025] EWHC 1958 (Ch)

The Chancery Division approved a distribution plan under the Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency Regulations 2021 in the special administration of Rational Foreign Exchange Ltd. The court granted declaratory relief concerning the legal status of various business models and methods used by the company to service EU-domiciled customers post-Brexit. It held that, notwithstanding regulatory breaches, funds received from certain EU customers should be treated as relevant funds and returned accordingly. The court dismissed the application by the intervener, Multinational Logistic Services Ltd, for declarations that its deposited funds were safeguarded relevant funds held by the company, finding that MLS had contracted with Rational FX EU, not the company.


Financial remedy

BC v BC [2025] EWHC 2016 (Fam)

The Family Division ruled on the confidentiality of the private Financial Dispute Resolution (pFDR) process in contested financial remedy proceedings. The issue was whether the husband (respondent) was entitled to refer to events which took place at a private

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Quinn Emanuel—James McSweeney

Quinn Emanuel—James McSweeney

London promotion underscores firm’s investment in white collar and investigations

Ward Hadaway—Louise Miller

Ward Hadaway—Louise Miller

Private client team strengthened by partner appointment

NLJ Career Profile: Kate Gaskell, Flex Legal

NLJ Career Profile: Kate Gaskell, Flex Legal

Kate Gaskell, CEO of Flex Legal, reflects on chasing her childhood dreams underscores the importance of welcoming those from all backgrounds into the profession

NEWS
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
In Ward v Rai, the High Court reaffirmed that imprecise points of dispute can and will be struck out. Writing in NLJ this week, Amy Dunkley of Bolt Burdon Kemp reports on the decision and its implications for practitioners
Could the Supreme Court’s ruling in R v Hayes; R v Palombo unintentionally unsettle future complex fraud trials? Maia Cohen-Lask of Corker Binning explores the question in NLJ this week
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